Advantage Quote by Arthur Erickson

The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like…

— Bjarke Ingels

Modernism is an outmoded way of thinking about design: it just doesn't reflect the way we live now. It always puts forward this idea…

— Marcel Wanders

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

— Frank Gehry

Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be…

— Martin Filler

Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century." This happened…

— Jane Jacobs

“The essential difference with Builders is that they've found something to do that matters to them and are therefore so passionately engaged, they rise…

— Anonymous

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

— Peter Gay

The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.

— Ken Follett

I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the…

— Neri Oxman

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

— Norman Foster

By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for its own…

— Dan Cruickshank

“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the best of…

— Evelyn Waugh